Jacob Wachter

Jacob Wachter (1888-1940) was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II.

Biography
Jacob Wachter was born in Munich, Bavaria, German Empire in 1888, and he served in the Imperial German Army during World War I before rising in the ranks of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht during the Interwar period. By the start of World War II, he had become an oberst (colonel), and he fought in the Battle of France in 1940. That year, he was sent to take part in the occupation of Paris. In August, as he prayed at a Catholic church, guarded by two guards, he was shot dead by French Resistance member Sean Devlin.